Life Begins When?
The central philosophy of the pro-life movement is that life begins at conception.
That always makes me laugh.
Life began several billion years ago. All living things come from other living things. It’s a law. A law that was probably only broken once, in the beginning. So life does not begin at conception.
So they reply, new life begins at conception.
I laugh again.
The egg is alive. The sperm is alive. The zygote (fertilized egg) is alive. Calling a zygote new life is like pouring water from two different glasses into a third glass and claiming you have “new water.” Your body is composed of trillions of cells and every cell in the body is alive. Every second 50 million of those cells die. No one mourns for those cell deaths yet the pro-life movement organizes to stop the death of even one fertilized egg. They claim that each fertilized egg is a potential human life and thus would outlaw not just abortion but any form of birth control that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. That would include IUDs, morning after pills and most forms of low-dose birth control pills. To them this one cell has more rights than a fully-grown woman with a functional brain. In their minds a woman’s main purpose, one she cannot reject, is to act as a growth medium for that single cell because – it has the potential to become a human being.
I laugh again.
Every egg, every spermatozoa has the potential to become a human being. They are both living cells, just as a zygote is living. Yet the pro-life movement does not try to protect them. Yet. When will we have laws that mandate that a woman must be pregnant or lactating her entire reproductive life to prevent the formation of new eggs that might die unfertilized, thus killing a potential human being. When will we have laws that make masturbation illegal and thus preventing the 80 million spermatozoa in the average human ejaculate from dying useless deaths? Each spermatozoa had the potential to become human but when they are ejaculated during masturbation they all die!
What about all the spermatozoa that die in any act of intercourse. Surely sperm-killing condoms must be made illegal. And spermicides! Even their name indicates their lethal purpose. The purpose of a spermicide is to kill sperm and thus the potential human life that each sperm might produce. Surely spermicides must be made illegal as well. Spermatozoa also die when a woman has sex when she is not fertile. Surely that must be made illegal as well. Every woman must carry a kit so she can determine her fertile periods so she will not be a party to the deaths of the 80 million potential human beings each time she has sex!!
Even if a woman is in a fertile period and conceives during an act of sex, what about the other 79,999,999 spermatozoa that die!!! Each one is a potential human life!! So even if one spermatozoa fertilizes an egg, the rest die!!! A holocaust of potential human lives!!!
Surely the pro-life movement must demand that all conceptions take place in a laboratory and that all sperm and eggs not used to produce a new human life today, must be frozen and used to produce new human life tomorrow.
There are about 6 ½ billion people alive on earth today. There are about 75 million births a year. So each year only one man will be allowed to have one ejaculation lest other potential human lives be snuffed out during sex. Of course all other men must be forced to take drugs that suppress sperm producing lest their spermatozoa die in their bodies. All potential holocausts must be averted!!!.
And so I laugh.
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© Alllie 2006
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